Mendocino County history: Old Time Notes from The Beacon

125 Years Ago Jan. 28, 1893

• The Point Arena Record of last week says: “Last week as the steamer Point Arena was loading with freight at this place the tide went out and left the steamer on the rocks. It took several hours to get her off.”

• Lockart & Ware’s mill at Inglenook is now in running order, and is reported to be doing good work.

• E.D. Warren of Fresno, is now occupying the position of operator and bookkeeper in the Caspar store, lately vacated by Mr. Reed.

• Sam Colburn of Caspar has accepted a position in the Navarro mill.

• The steamer Jewel sailed from Caspar last Saturday loaded with lumber.

• J. S. Ware of Inglenook, came down on Wednesday and has taken a position in the Beacon office.

• The mill at Gualala is doing good work thus far. There is only one side running at present, but the company is getting the other side ready as fast as possible, and expects to have the mill running full blast in a very short time.

100 Years Ago Jan. 26, 1918

• Some of the stockholders in the Mendocino Bank of Commerce have sold a portion of their stock to the directors of the Fort Bragg Commercial Bank. However, the present management of the Mendocino Bank of Commerce will be unchanged as Mr. Grindle, who will continue as president, has retained a large share of his holding as have other stockholders. J. S. Ross will continue as Vice-President, F. W. Stickney as Secretary-Treasurer, Chris Ottoson and John C. Philbrick as Directors, and Fred H. Perkins will continue as cashier of the bank. The Mendocino Bank of Commerce will continue to serve the people of Mendocino City as it has in the past and the addition of new stockholders will make no difference to the public except the added strength of the institution. The working of the two banks together will give Mendocino City the advantage of having banking assets of three quarters of a million dollars.

• Jack Bell, the local horse buyer for the government, has about exhausted the supply of army stock in this county and Lake, having shipped out about 650 head since the commencement of the war.

75 Years Ago Jan. 23, 1943

• Just Around the Corner By C. A. King: Russians say that the present winter in southern Russia is one of the mildest in many years. But, you would never be able to convince Hitler that it was anything but strenuous. Have you noticed that when our soldiers, sailors and marines come home they talk of animals native to the places where their outfits have been in action: For instance, camels, koala bears, kangaroos, Kodiak bear, Polar bear … when they all return home and the war is over when they can be free to talk again – won’t their tales be something interesting to listen to. We may then begin to learn something about this old globe of ours. Yes, a lot we never know.

• Rockport News: The planing mill is running steady with Ray Hildebrand in charge and it is turning out a lot of very fine surfaced lumber.

• Richard Lemos, who has been at the Farragut Naval Training Station since his enlistment, has been transferred to Norman, Oklahoma, for further training.

50 Years Ago Jan. 26, 1968

• Floyd Cooney was elected president of the Mendocino Coast Community Concert Association when they met Monday evening at the Leonard Holmes’ home, with Mrs. Pearl Summers, national representative of the Community Concerts. Those who will serve with Cooney are Mrs. William Grader, Mrs. Alex Tregoning, Leonard Holmes, Mrs. William Livingston, Mrs. Clayton Mallory, Mrs. Leslie Rowe, Carl Sauer and Mrs. Raymond Gevas.

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• Elinor Hayes drove up Friday from San Francisco for a refreshing few days at her local retreat, the Old Hayes Place. The weather co-operated beautifully; the iridescent clouds were powdered with sunlight, during her respite.

• David Barnes, Mendocino artist who is also past president of the Mendocino Art Center, will present a two weeks’ showing of his works in oil and acrylic at the Racine Gallery, Fort Bragg. The group will include Mexican landscapes, painted two years ago during his year’s leave of absence as art instructor at Fort Bragg High School. During this time David won his Master’s degree at Instituto Allende, San Miguel. The group exhibit will also embrace some non-objective paintings as well as collages made from Mexican wall posters. A resident of Mendocino for 14 years, David graduated from Sacramento State as an art major, later teaching art in public schools and night school for a number of years.

25 Years Ago Jan. 28, 1993

• Surprise Voyage in Albion, a poetry theater, presents ruth weiss with San Francisco poets Laura Conway and Joie Cook; ruth weiss has recently released an audio and video cassette, “Poetry & Allthatjazz.” She has performed locally at the Caspar Inn, Jazz on the Lawn, and has frequently been heard on KZYX and appeared on Channel 3. Her books are available at MAC and local book stores.

• Al and Madeleine Koskela are celebrating their 68th wedding anniversary today. Al’s parents came to Albion in 1889 from Finland. He was born on Nov. 10, 1902 and attended the Albion school. He moved to San Francisco when he was 19 years old and met Madeleine while he was working at Layton’s Cafeteria as a cook. She was born in San Francisco in 1904. After the earthquake in 1906, her father built a house on Valley Street in Noe Valley, where she lived until she and Al were married in Saint Paul’s Church, where the movie “Sister Act” was recently filmed.